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GENUS GELECHIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms
Synonyms:
Gelechia; genus Gelechia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Gelechia" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Gelechia"):
Gelechia gossypiella (small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton)
Holonyms ("genus Gelechia" is a member of...):
family Gelechiidae; Gelechiidae (important economic pests)